Political Science 2O06 Lecture #3.docx

Political Science 2O06 Lecture #3
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September 13 , 2013
Roman Numerals! LEARN THEM
- Socrates says
1) to harm someone is to make them worse with respect to human virtue
2) Justice is a human virtue
- What is harmful is to become less just or less virtuous then what we were before,
- Punishment would make children become more virtuous, leads them to understand justice
- Socrates believes that some adults would be something like children, they require some
punishment to become more virtuous
Thersveciz Argument
- Enters the conversation hunched up like a wild beast
- He’s aggressive, irritated , impatient with what Socrates is saying
- IRONY- saying one thing but meaning an